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Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by Waterluvian on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:02PM (#35683220)
Wine Roblox players may be such a microscopic piece of user base that they consciously don’t care.
Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by syrrim on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:05PM (#35683229)
They cared enough to implement detection and blocking.
Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by Hydraulix989 on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:55AM (#35684127)
Which is the equivalent amount of engineering work to just bypassing sending telemetry on WINE if WINE is detected. Instead, they go out of their way to detect WINE, but then intentional block it, rather than just bypassing telemetry upon detection. Someone at Roblox has an axe to grind.
Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by bravetraveler on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:48AM (#35683770)
I'm surprised they've done much of anything, given the likely relatively small overlap.

Since they have, where they essentially have sys.exit in Python terms, it could be updating a telemetry-controlling global instead

The 'protect our data' thing is suspicious in my mind